On August 11, 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Treasury Department for failing to comply with a FOIA request filed on January 23, 2009 which requested any records regarding the evaluation process that the Treasury used to determine which banks received funds from…

The federal government has already applied $86 billion to bailout the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the cost to American taxpayers is expected to reach $200 billion by the end of 2010. On February 5, 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with…

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to respond to a FOIA request filed November 2, 2010, for documents regarding communication between the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense…

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain documents detailing Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s participation in discussions related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of March 23, 2010, also known as Obamacare, while she served as…

Judicial Watch filed its lawsuit against the Justice Department to obtain documents regarding the DOJ’s decision to dismiss the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.On September 15, the Justice Department provided a list of documents which they would be producing — called a Vaughn index — which…

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to force the agency’s compliance with a FOIA request for documents regarding waivers for companies and unions exempting them from requirements of Public Health Services Act Section 2711, commonly known as…

Judicial Watch filed this lawsuit to force the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Council and/or the Attorney Regulation Counsel of the Supreme Court of Colorado (OARC/ARC) to provide documents regarding the connection between OARC/ARC and the investigation of former Maricopa County, Arizona Attorney Andrew Thomas and associated investigations and acts…

Judicial Watch filed this lawsuit against the City of Phoenix to obtain documents related to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s taxpayer-funded security detail. The desire is to determine if the detail, which costs taxpayers about $1 million per year, is used for any non-official or personal purposes while the city is…